Mary (Samson) Summers (abt. 1664 - abt. 1686)

Born about 1664 in Duxbury, Plymouth Colony

Ancestors

Died about 1686 at about age 22 in Rochester, Plymouth, Plymouth Colony [uncertain]

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Biography

Mary, the daughter of Mayflower passenger Henry Samson and his wife Anne Plummer, was born in Duxbury, Plymouth Colony,^[1] say 1664.

She married John Summers prior to the date her father wrote his will, December 24, 1684. Henry Samson called her "Mary my daughter ... wife of John Summers." The will was proved 5 Mar 1684/5.^[2][1][3][4]

Mary died not long after their marrage, as John married a second time in 1686. She and John Summers had no children.^[1][5]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Wakefield, Robert S. (editor). Mayflower Families Through Five Generations. Volume Twenty. Part 1 Family of Henry Samson. Robert Moody Sherman and Ruth Wilder Sheman (compilers).(General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2000). Pages 2, 5, 6.
2. ↑ "Massachusetts, Plymouth County, Probate Records, 1633-1967," images, FamilySearch (20 May 2014), Wills 1633-1686 vol 1-4 > image 584 of 616; State Archives, Boston. Vol 4:2:94-95.
3. ↑ New England Marriages to 1700 Volume 2 page 1472 of 1482. (Link via $ubscription.) New England Marriages to 1700. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015.
4. ↑ The Great Migration Begins, 1620-1635 Vol 3, P-W. Ancestry.com. New England, The Great Migration and The Great Migration Begins, 1620-1635 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013. Original data: Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3; The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-6. Boston: New England Historical and Genealogical Society, 1996-2011.
5. ↑ Mayflower Births and Deaths, Vol. 1 and 2 Source Citation Description Mayflower Births and Deaths: Volume 2 Source Information Ancestry.com. Mayflower Births and Deaths, Vol. 1 and 2 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013. This collection was indexed by Ancestry World Archives Project contributors. Original data:Roser, Susan E. Mayflower Births and Deaths: From the Files of George Ernest Bowman at the Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants. Volumes 1 & 2. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., 1992.

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